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Historical Event on 9/10/1999

Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/16/1932Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
6/24/1990President R. Venkataraman issues notification formally constituting an Inter-State Council.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
3/21/1966Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service.
1/4/1966ndo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan.
10/24/1954Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died.
2/3/1998The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
10/9/1964K. M. George established the Kerala Congress Party.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.